Chris Cooley and his bag of…uh…tricks?

Chris Cooley did a bit of blogging the other day and he describes training camp thusly:

The one cool thing about the first month of camp is living in a dorm room. I love it when I get to leave my 2.8 million dollar house and live in a 400 square foot box, trade in the Mercedes for the bus, and curl up in my twin bed. The TV’s are great too, who isn’t happy when they pick up 10 total channels on a 24 inch box? Yea, I guess now people can say what a ungrateful bastard I am and how much anyone would give to play pro football, but please, whether it’s a high school or NFL training camp, it’s still gonna be as fun as a bag of dicks.

I actually sympathize with Cooley when he writes that he loves football, but training camp just takes the joy out of the game for him. Training camp is about repetition. It’s about doing the same things over and over again until they are second nature — the sort of thing Petyon Manning and Marvin Harrison actually seem to enjoy. In football, as in life, it is often the drudge work that makes the glamorous stuff look easy.